Journalists who were on the launch report a spectacular sight of a snowy launch, after a severe storm also on a Russian and Kazakh scale
The fate of the space station was at stake and now we can breathe a sigh of relief thanks to the successful launch of the Soyuz spacecraft carrying three members of the 29th crew of the space station, the American astronaut Dan Borbanak and the Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkapelrov and Anatoly Ivanishin.
Journalists who were on the launch report a spectacular sight of a snowy launch, after a severe storm also on a Russian and Kazakh scale.
This is the manned flight of Soyuz and of course manned flights in general since the retirement of the American space shuttles in July and the accident that happened to the launch vehicle, which is also called Soyuz, in August during which a cargo spacecraft of the Progress model that was supposed to bring equipment and food to the station was lost.
Suez reached his destination after about nine minutes. The spacecraft's solar collectors and antenna opened immediately after its arrival in space, and it is functioning properly, according to reports from the control center in Moscow. After two days in orbit, the astronauts will make orbit corrections and dock at the Foysk dock on the space station on Wednesday morning.
